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Just when you thought an expression couldn't get any worse than the lilly-livered [[and/ | Just when you thought an expression couldn't get any worse than the lilly-livered [[and/or]], the good people of the European Commission's crack drafting squad say HOLD MY BEER. | ||
[[File:Andor.png|center|[[And/or]] on steroids, or maybe a hallucinogenic trip]] | [[File:Andor.png|center|[[And/or]] on steroids, or maybe a hallucinogenic trip]] | ||
Behold: a novel, frightful, way of articulating the already gruesome expression "[[and/or]]": | |||
Take out the [[virgule]] (the [[slash]], [[/]] that unnecessary character) and replace it with [[as the case may be]]. | |||
"and, [[as the case may be]], or". | "and, [[as the case may be]], or". |
Revision as of 12:26, 30 November 2018
Just when you thought an expression couldn't get any worse than the lilly-livered and/or, the good people of the European Commission's crack drafting squad say HOLD MY BEER.
Behold: a novel, frightful, way of articulating the already gruesome expression "and/or":
Take out the virgule (the slash, / that unnecessary character) and replace it with as the case may be.
"and, as the case may be, or".
This is black-belt stuff, gang: this is nested flannel. A flannelette phase, (displaying a keening want of ontological certainty) embedded in a flannelette phrase that also displays profound ontological uncertainty]]. There’s a portal to the fourth dimension right there. An information superhighway right to the boredom heat-death of the universe.
Now I'm not sure this makes idiomatic, let alone legal, sense, but it appears 33 times in the AIFMD implementing regulations
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